Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia participates in 184 Bunkabop connections with 5506 other places across 23 topics, with sports, government, and history forming the bulk of its ties. In its early years as Örgöö, it became the seat of the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the spiritual head of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia. The city grew up along a caravan route established after the 1727 Treaty of Kyakhta, and in 1990 it was the site of large demonstrations that ended communist rule.